My apologies in advance this is going to have to be a quick post and you are going to get 2 in a row here (yesterday as well)
Here in Nairobi this netbook won’t connect to the internet so I’m having to post from my phone… so I will post pictures as soon as I have a connection! Sorry!
Today we woke up to find ourselves in Africa. It was amazing yet nothing like anything I thought it would be. Personally when I thought about Africa I pictured the Savannah and hot weather… well it was cold and very green. Nairobi s about 1 mile above sea level so the mornings are cold and the afternoon sun is very hot!
We also woke up to find out that the ‘hotel’ that we are staying in is so clean and beautiful with immaculate rooms! (I say that we woke up to it as it was dark when we got here)
So today we headed out and went to an elephant orphanage and rehab facility. It’s a place where orphaned elephants go to be raised and sent back into the wild. They were very cute and playful.
We then went to a Giraffe facility where they are trying to build the population of a once very endangered species. At one time there were only 120 of this species in Kenya due to deforestation and killing of them for food. The amazing this here is that you can actually receive giraffe kisses… yes it’s as disgusting as it sounds… pictures will follow. Unfortunately I didn’t get a kiss as the giraffe that I fed doesn’t give them (or maybe she just didn’t like me).
Then off to lunch and a bead factory where a pre-requisite to work there is that you are a single mother. They pay their employees very well and sell their beads all over the world. Definitely a business that you’d want to support… and many of the women on our trip did!
Now off to dinner and into the Masai Mara tomorrow!
Elephant Orphanage - Feeding itself!
Travis – I want you to know that I am really enjoying your daily updates. Your communicative follow-through highlights your generations natural connectivity/innate comfort with computer transferability (which in turn translates to global connectivity)…AKA – Insta-messaging!!
I am encouraged to hear of companies that are pro single mothers (there, or anywhere). I do have a good friend and her husband whom have given years of their talent and initiative to this specific end.
XO D.